In learning and development, self-regulation can be described as the extent to which individuals are metacognitively, motivationally, and behaviourally proactive participants in their learning process (Zimmerman, 1989, 2006). We examined the relationship between self-regulation and performance level …

Many bilingual children have an acquisition delay in their L2, which is easily mistaken for SLI. With the aim to, on the one hand, tackle this 'disentangling problem' and, on the other hand, create adequate expectations regarding bilingual "normal" development, we compared Dutch lexical and grammatical …

The worldwide obesity epidemic is a major and complex problem, resulting from the interaction of individual metabolic, genetic, and psychological factors with meso- and macro environmental factors. Adolescents, with their rapid changes in body composition, together with their shift in orientation from …

Gebrek aan zelfvertrouwen kan de reden zijn dat het leerproces van kinderen ernstig wordt belemmerd. Een gering zelfvertrouwen staat in nauwe relatie met een negatief zelfbeeld en geringe zelfwaardering. Het zelfbeeld en de zelfwaardering worden beïnvloed door de manier waarop mensen over het kind denken, …

Background: Patients with Senning repair for complete transposition of the great arteries (d-TGA) show an impaired exercise tolerance. Our aim was to investigate changes in exercise capacity in children, adolescents and adults with Senning operation. Methods: Peak oxygen uptake (peak VO2), oxygen pulse …

Young people spend a large part of their day sedentary, both at school and at home. The aim of the PlayFit project is to persuade teenagers to lead a more active lifestyle by using digital as well as non-digital games and play. In this position paper, we describe in detail the three key principles of …

To examine the association of adolescents' snack and soft drink consumption with friendship group snack and soft drink consumption, availability of snacks and soft drinks at school, and personal characteristics, snack and soft drink consumption was assessed in 749 adolescents (398 girls, 351 boys, age …

Peer assessment is an educational arrangement where students judge a peers performance quantitatively and/or qualitatively and which stimulates students to reflect, discuss and collaborate. However, empirical evidence for peer assessment effects on learning is scarce, mostly based on student self-reports …

Pleidooi voor een drietrapsraket, waabij de overheid meer ruimte geeft aan instellingen om haar eigen kwaliteit te bewaken (instellingsaccreditatie); management van scholen als buffer op treedt en professionals hun verantwoordelijkheid nemen en bereid zijn verantwoording af te leggen aan peers.

Pleidooi voor een drietrapsraket, waabij de overheid meer ruimte geeft aan instellingen om haar eigen kwaliteit te bewaken (instellingsaccreditatie); management van scholen als buffer op treedt en professionals hun verantwoordelijkheid nemen en bereid zijn verantwoording af te leggen aan peers.